Category: Announcements

Bob’s Café open today

Takeaway cream teas at Bob’s Cafe today Friday July 17th 11 -1 and 4 -5

Keeping calm and carrying on – 75th anniversary of VE Day

   This Friday marks the 75th anniversary of VE Day and West Sussex County Council is asking residents across the county to join in on this very special occasion.     Whilst gatherings and events will obviously not be possible, there are still many ways of getting involved.     The county council’s Record Office …

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Rushfields Update

  Plant Centre Update The plant centre is still Closed we will not be able to open until the government ease the lock down restrictions, we have no more information as to when that is likely to be. Please be aware that when that when we are able to open, there will be a limit of …

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Oil price

This weekend’s rate is £0.1810 ppl* for the Poynings Heating Oil Club, plus VAT. Same as last week.https://www.oil-club.co.uk/

Make History

If you have stories to tell about Poynings, the West Sussex Record Office is asking residents to document their experience during the coronavirus. Learn more. 

Library service

Great to see that 963 people have joined the online library since they closed their buildings on 17 March. They have added 1,300 extra ebooks and 450 eAudio titles and are now issuing about four times the number of these. Around 32,000 newspapers and magazines are being downloaded each week too! Last week there were …

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Help commemorate Mid Sussex Virtual VE Day

  Mid Sussex District Council are calling for your help to create a memory bank of commemoration for Victory in Europe Day (8th May). While current social distancing measures are in place it will not be possible for street parties to take place at the moment, so Mid Sussex District Council is calling for submissions …

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Young Children

  I have been asked to put out the following post. While it is appreciated many of us are outside relaxing or working, please remember to consider language as young children are also in their gardens a lot during this time. Thank you.

Local Food delivery update

Rushfields Food Boxes – https://www.rushfields.com Thank you all for your patience, we are now getting closer to keeping up with deliveries of the food boxes, we will continue to run the delivery service as long as it is required, as we have said before if you are unable to get on with the web shop …

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Where can we get deliveries from?

Our local services are doing a great job supporting vulnerable residents and keeping the villages supplied with essentials. https://www.rushfields.com/ https://www.facebook.com/trufflesbakery https://www.thegingerjungle.com/local-community https://www.fuel-coffee-house.com/burgers And probably others. Along with priority delivery slots, shopping hours etc., supermarket chains have developed a volunteer gift card scheme that allows volunteers to shop in store on behalf vulnerable residents. Alleviating the …

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